Wednesday, November 29, 2006

You should know I’m considering an annual posting schedule, a calendar carefully wrought to ensure we meet on a special night every year for a surprise discussion. And it appears you’ve hit the jackpot. Surprise! I’m kidding, of course, because this would require too much blueprinting, and you may have detected that industry is a thing much wanted in our forum these days.

It’s been reported that I enjoy snatching Nintendo Wii’s out of the hopeful claws of tweens, whatever the hell those are, and at so choice a venue as a Target, no less. Erroneous! Erroneous! Erroneous on both accounts. Sure, it may have been a Target, but for the record I don’t snatch, and any children who may have been disappointed were instead in school, or maybe a coal mine, or wherever tweens are wont to be.

I believe in the stylish approach, what legend calls walking into the store during lunch break, and this precludes camping or even standing in line for more than 15 minutes to collect your electronic bounty. I mean, waiting overnight in front of a Best Buy? C’mon. We’re talking about nutbags pitching tents under a neon yellow glow, going to the bathroom probably in their pants, as they add a very suburban twist to “roughing it.” Could any chunk of plastic possibly be worth that kind of devotion?